FRAMEWORK BASED MOBILE LIBRARY USAGE AND SUCCESS FACTOR: REVIEW AND EXTENTION CONCEPT
Tengku Adil Tengku Izhar
Faculty of Information Management
Universiti Teknologi MARA, UiTM
UiTM Selangor,
Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia
Nur Natasya Irlyana Mohd Khajazi
Faculty of Information Management
Universiti Teknologi MARA, UiTM
UiTM Selangor,
Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to propose a framework based mobile library usage. The aim is to identify the factors toward the success usage of mobile library. This is because the usage of mobile application is very popular especially among student. Therefore, it is important to apply this tecjnology in the library in order to improve the usage of library services. At the same time, the framework identify the factors toward the successfully implementation of the library services.
1. Introduction
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